NBA All-Star and Cleveland Cavaliers guard Darius Garland opens up about his journey toward making it into the exclusive 50/40/90 NBA club and his "revenge season" mindset. He talks about putting on 25 pounds, building chemistry with Donovan Mitchell, and why he thinks the Cavs deserve four All-Stars this year. Along with Draymond Green and Baron Davis, he dives into the All-Star popularity contest, Kenny Atkinson’s coaching style, and how he and the Cavs bounce back after a tough loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Darius also talks about why he started his TENFOLD YouTube series, how former Chicago Bulls MVP Derrick Rose has influenced his game, his goal to chase a championship this season, and his top five shiftiest guards in the league.
Timeline
2:30 - Start
10:15 Chasing the Exclusive 50/40/90 Club
14:00 Revenge Season
25:15 - Putting on 25 Pounds
28:15Locking In with Donovan Mitchell
32:15 Cavs Should Have 4 All-Stars
38:00 Is the All-Star Popularity Contest?
32:15 Response to Getting Blown Out by OKC
50:45Having Kenny Atkinson as a Head Coach
53:00 Before Kenny’s Mindset in Cleveland
1:01:30 Starting TENFOLD Youtube Series
1:02:15 Derrick Rose’s Basketball Influence
1:08:00 Winning a Ring This Season
1:09:30 Top 5 Shiftiest Guards
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We just wanted to show you a lot of love
and appreciation in these times.
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We most definitely appreciate y'all.
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And also all all all the fire departments that came
from outside places to help fight those fires. Couldn't imagine
being there, you know. I know the stress that I've
dealt with over the last we can and half of
just wondering and worrying that our house, that our home
(02:05):
will be okay.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You know, and just to know, like.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But people being in that every single day, actually getting
displaced from the home that they live in on a
daily basis, you know, being taken out, kids being taken.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Out of school.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The reality is some of those kids being taken out
of school, some of those parents still have to work,
you know, and so you know, just with all the
stuff going on, So we definitely send send our love
to the whole city of La everybody affected, all of
those helping and you know, doing all that you can
in your power.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I can't thank you all enough. But we're going to
get into the show b D.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'm not sure why you got the Is that is
that the Elwood hoodie? I think so, man, GP put
me on this brand. It's I think they based out
of LA It's called Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Let me too?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Are you talking about my new ship?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Bro?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
You sir?
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Bar is gone?
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Happened to bar Old mill Bards.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Transferring barn On mil to a true animation at the dreads.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Shot with a boar.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Hey man, you know it's I'll start weekend coming up.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
You know I got about when I say, about nine
ten months to get ready for training camp. You know
what I'm saying. So, hey man, I had to cut
the dreams off. They was holding me back. I was
missing shots and ship. So I staid off off with
the hair. You trying to go back to BD with
(03:49):
the with the hornet. When I show up in training camp,
I'm out of headband, everything in the baggy shorts. Ah.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
This man just popped up on TV with a bar.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Come on, man, you know I just switch him up.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I had to look more professional, you know, we gotta
look put more professional. The handing out these Amazon, MTV, NBC,
Netflix deals, I'm like, okay, let me is it the hair.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Let's see it was there because I know I could
talk to talk. Is the hair is the hair? To me?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You're scared of the gyms. These just say't real?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Did you shave it?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Did you shave your hair with a raise or clippers?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Now what happened, bro, was the barber. He gave me
a good cut, but my hairline I had a stephen
Ag And so my kids kept calling me stephen A.
And so I went back to the barber and I
was like, hey, bro, I cannot be called stephen A nowhere.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
In l A.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
My kids is doing this. They was on the FaceTime
them and all their prayers. They was like, stephen A.
My dad got a stephen A. So I told the barber,
I said, bro, take me all the way, take me home,
take me home.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
So are you so?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Are you saying stephen A need to come on home too?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Man? I stephen A. That's that's his moniker, that's his logo.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
If you had a he was a silhouette, you would
you would know that. You wouldn't know that stephen A.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You feel me like he is like if that's how
that's how pretty much you know, think about it, like
if he was a silhouette. You can look at the
silhouette and say, oh, that's Stephen A.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Smith.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
So he can never go ball.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Nah. He you gotta keep that. Yeah, he got it,
he got it. He gotta keep that. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It's like it's like when you go to the lowrider
so and they got the uh and they got the trunk,
like will help it so.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You can see the motor.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh man, Oh my god, I could have a low rider.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I can't have a trunk open. I said, Man, I'm
just cutting off. I can't be Stephen at it.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Just go ahead and go home, man, kudos, ta.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We're gonna get into today's guests.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Oh man, listen, get.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Today's guests.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Uh an all star point guard And I say that
were all pun intended, and we will get into that. Nonetheless,
he's average twenty one seventh shooting nearly fifty percent from
the field. He's very close to the fifty forty ninety
club right now. And the twenty one points on fifty
percent from the field at that size says a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So we're gonna get into this.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Nonetheless, he is a twenty twenty two NBA All Star,
and like I said, he gotta get another one this year.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
One of the best guards in the league that I
play in.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Nonetheless, he been on the pod this this rundown that
I saw. I say, a friend of the pot. He
ain't no friend of no goddamn pot. That's just my
young dog right there. Dj PG, what's happening?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You're good with You.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Appreciate youa having me, man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
He's staring down the possibility of joining the exclusive fifty
forty ninety club this season. I know your team first, guy,
but how important is it for a point guard to
be in this club? Especially season you haven't?
Speaker 10 (08:01):
Man, It's cool.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
I mean, I think it's like eight guys in the
NBA history that's actually done it and actually completed it
for an entire season, which is pretty tough to do.
But I mean it's cool just having the stats and
like a great field goal percentage, like Drake mand said,
like at my size, it's it's pretty hard. So I mean,
(08:24):
it's cool just being up there with some of those
guys haven't been completed yet for the entire season, so
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna like jump into it,
but I mean it's cool just being recognized like that.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
It's cool to have some stats like that.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
For sure, you walk into the game, right, It's not
like you're saying on fifty forty ninety you hit those marks.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
You walking in the game, like, what is that? What
does that feel? Right? Because because you had a high clip, right, man?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Like, what is that?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Confident? What's what's that feel? Bro? It's gotta be a yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I mean, just going in with confidence, bro, Just trying
to play the right way, be aggressive when I can,
but just trying to take the right shots, playing the
system a little bit, you know, but just trying to
be aggressive at all times, trying to get into paint
as much as possible. And then with the live thrist
that we got, I mean, everybody going back to their man.
(09:19):
They five man fives don't never want their big.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
To score ever.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I mean, going right now, I'm getting.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Some easy layups. So that's why the field goal percentage
so high. I'm getting looks from the three point line.
Been saying some really good screens for me to come
off and get some open looks, and then my teammate
send me up so well so and then the free
two percentage, I mean that's just focused and concentration, so
not too much.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I'd be pretty focused and concentrated. I'm going to the
free throw line, not like that telling me it's just
focus and concentration. That's just simply true. But you just
made that sound less difficult than what I see. No,
I'm talking about one thing you said and specific which
(10:10):
is specifically, which is you said, biggs don't want their
their their sinners don't want their men to score, so
I'm getting easy layups.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I disagree with that. I agree that sinners don't like
their man to score.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
But I think you do such an incredible job of
keeping like what we're taught as biggs is to cat
and mouse, like never give up, like if you're going
to fully commit to the guard, never give up if
you're completely taking a big away when you're in that
two on one situation, and you do it just about
(10:44):
as well as anyone where you will literally pass the
ball at the very last second, like if you get
all the way to the rim and you about to
lay the ball up and finally I go because I
have to go at that point. You do as good
a job as anyone of them making that drop off
fast after you get that guy to commit at the
last second, and.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That's such an incredible skill.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So I have to disagree with you there where you
say I'm getting easy layouts because I got live threats,
Because I get a lot of guys with live threats
in that situation and they can't finish. And so they
can't finish that layup, don't know when to take that layup,
and if they drop that ball off, you better believe it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm going to steal it and go the other way.
And you do it as well as.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Anyone in this league. So I just wanted to throw
that out there while you make it sound so easy.
But moving on, I love that you call this your
revenge season because I know the player that you are,
and last couple of years you haven't quite been the
(11:51):
DG that I know. And that's due to some injury,
right like you bring Donovan Mitchewan that takes some time
to get used to. Everybody think it's just gonna happened
the next day. That don't happen like that, right like,
And so there's things that were happening that I think
could have caused it. Nonetheless, I want to ask you what,
(12:14):
what for what reason did you feel that you needed
a revenge season.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
A lot of people doubted me last year, bro, Like
you said, I was going through a lot of injuries,
broken jaw, a lot of family stuff that I was
dealing with. But I mean, most importantly, the jaw was
detrimental to me, to be honest. I mean, I lost
fifteen pounds. I'm eating out of a straw. I'm trying
(12:41):
to literally just blend anything up I can find in
the house just to try to get some nutrients in
my body.
Speaker 10 (12:49):
And I mean that's what it was, bro.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Like, I'm in the second round of playoffs playing against
the Boston Celsius I won the finals. I'm down fifteen
pounds in that little since high school. So I'm playing
at the highest level and the most intense basketball in
my career and I'm not even fully healthy.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
Like I'm just going out there. I just really rushed it.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Just trying to get back out there with the guys
and play the game that I love for real. So yeah,
this is I knew coming to that summer. The next summer,
like I really had to really lock in on my body,
really lock in in the gym, and that was my
whole mindset, Like I'm coming to get what I deserve
and what I had, Like, I want all that back.
(13:32):
I want the All Stars back. I want to get
back to the Eastern Conference finals that we really want
to get to.
Speaker 10 (13:40):
I want to get back. I was saying, have like
a like a good little jump start for it, you know.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
So I mean that was that was just like a
big thing for me last year and going into that
summer was just it's my time to get what I deserve.
And I mean I just had that confidence send me
every sense the injury, just to go in and have
that mindset like let's go get it.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I see a different look at different fire, different confidence,
and a different poise.
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
You know, I also read that you got a list.
I love the fact that you got a list. You
feel me you have to have a list when.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You're a PG.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Can you talk about this list and if you want
to give me like three or four names off the list.
I heard you check sawm a. You know, I'm just
here as a witness, you know, to say yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
The list was just I mean, you know, y'all know
this this league is really hard guard heavy. So it's
a lot of great guards in this league. And I
want to be mentioned as one of the top guards
in this league because I really feel like I'm one
of those guys. And I mean, just this summer, I'm
(15:00):
just thinking about all the guards that I had to
go through to get back to this All Star level
and even get an All Star node. And it's a
couple of people on the list that I got it
this year so far. Uh we forty games in, we
got a whole nother second part of the season. But
I'm not gonna take no names though, b D. I'm sorry, Broyes.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Okay, I can guess, Yeah, I can guess.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
But yeah, I just want to play with that confidence.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
It's not about like just knocking nobody off or anything
like that, but I want to be seeing that's one
of the best guards in this league. And that's been
my mission. That's been my goals since I was a younger.
I wanted best to to play at this position. So yeah,
just having that confidence in me, Bro, going out there
and playing with confidence and having that swagger that I've
(15:51):
always had, and having the trust in my teammates and
my coaching staff that I can go out there and
do it on a nightly basis.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
But that list is like a chip, Yeah you got
you put some chips on your shoulders for me.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I remember it was Steve Nash, Tony Parker, Chauncey Billis
because each one was like a different level.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
You know. It's almost like a video game. And I
want to go to and oh against him four and
oh against him. You know. I like that you got
them chips.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
When you put them names, you know, on the board,
it's like you really got you really got a issue.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Right. It's not friendly basketball no more. What other point
goes exactly, And.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
That's that competition level.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Man, just having to chip on my shoulder and just
going out there and competing at a high level, especially
against those guards. But on a nightly basis, it is
always a different guard that's gonna give you something different
every night. So I mean you still got to go
out them, go at them the same way you're going
at the guys that you got on your list.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
So it's on a night to light basis.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Every every guard in this league is really good at
something that they do, and I'm just trying to go
at them and tack them as much as I can.
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Speaker 2 (18:22):
You spoke about eating out of a straw word on
the streets that you start to step into your grown
man weight now like you to put on twenty five pounds, Like,
do you feel the difference in the weight helping you,
like getting in that weight room getting stronger? Are you
f feeling that difference because I think that probably is
a part in the confidence as well.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Not for sure, that's definitely part of the confidence.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
I've been in the weight room consistently this year, which
is totally different.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
This like my first year actually being in there consistently,
and then the weight that I put on that helped tremendously.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
So I'm just trying to keep that weight on.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Bro.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
Yeah, I'm getting somebody.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
It's a little bit bumping a little bit and my
chest a little bit more on the defensive bands. So
I could definitely tell a difference just getting through screens
actually like making the first blow instead of taking it first,
you know, keep me off my heels. But yeah, I'm
getting a little bit more physical in the trenches.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I see in your defensive mentality that you're stronger like
you're You're looking to guard more than I've ever seen
you look to guard, and it's like on a possession
of possession basis. At times, it's you turning around everybody like,
hey man, we need to get a stop, and you
sitting down.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
And the what that brings to a team.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
For a point guard to be doing that like yourself,
it gives you your guys behind a whole another set
of confidence. But even but not even the confidence, it
gives them a whole nother sense of responsibility. And you know,
for y'all to have a Jared Allen and an Evin Mobley,
you know, who are two defensive stars in their own right,
(20:01):
but to see our point guard turn around and give
us that sense of responsibility, that's a totally different thing.
You know what I'm saying, and I see that, and
I think that is due to you putting that weight on,
and it's like, no, I can. I can take the bump,
you know, and still be there. And that comes with
a different bravado.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Yeah, like me just turning around talking to them like
I'm the head of the snake, like I'm the person
on the ball, So I gotta be the one that's
that's sitting down pulling on my shorts and try to
try not let him get in our paint even though
we do seven for this down there. That's all defensive
caliber type of guys, which helps a lot for sure.
(20:41):
Just being in the weight room, Bro, I'm actually taking
a lot more challenges. And I owe that to Kenny
Kenny Akinson man, He's he let me know you're gonna
guard this year.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Like we switching one through three, one through four.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
You go out to guard bigger guys, And that's motivated
me a little bit more to get and more in
the rate room so I can guard small fowards that's
trying to post me up and how to back me
down like they did in my earlier years.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
So yes, like you, like BD says, it's a chip
on my shoulder.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Bro, I'm trying to let nobody just score on me
whenever they can or just blow by me, and trying
to try other bas so he can get in rotations
and stuff like that.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
So yeah, just trying to put my shorts up and
move my puppies.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
A little bit more, park.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Man, You and Donovan Minta, y'all look great this year,
uh together after three seasons, you know, it looked like
y'all finally finding y'all groove.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I remember playing with David Wesley, you know, and when
you uh, you know, it's like almost similar size backcourt, right,
it take you a little bit of time to figure out, like, Okay,
he's he a point guard to you said, having a
ball in his hand. You know, I'm a point guard.
This is what I really want to do. Like when
(21:59):
did y'all really like what was.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It a player?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Or when did y'all feel really feel like y'all was
locked in, you know, as teammates, And when did you
feel like, Okay, I'm the point guard.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You the two But I understand you know how you flowing.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
To be completely honest, bro, I'm gonna really say this summer.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Really really got locked in knowing what we really want
to do with what we want to accomplish. He knew
that I was pretty upset about last year and not
having the performance that I wanted and what he wanted,
and as like a team perspective, Yeah, we just sat down.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And talked and.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
We just really explained to each other, like, this is
what we're gonna have to do to win, this is
what we're gonna have to do to get to the
Eastern Conference finals and to the finals. And yeah, it
was like a grown man conversation. It's really sat down
and just unfolded everything. That's like probably like the first
row man conversation I had in the league so far. Wow,
(23:04):
it was like, Yeah, it was like a lot of
release off my shoulders, and I know it was a
lot of release off his as well, because I know
that Tannem can work perfectly. He's a scoring guard and I.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Like to play mate.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
And then coming to this year, he's used to average
thirty and high twenties, but now this year his minutes
start down low and he's not averaging twenty five. He's
assuring like twenty three, twenty four, And we did a
number one team in the league, right, like he just
realized what the talent that he had around him, and
(23:39):
he's just letting me facilitate, and he's just playing off
me a lot more as well. Just trying to get
him open shots and open list because everybody's going to
hand him on the office event because he's Donovan Mitchell
Righting a VP candidate, So just trying to get him
some easy ones, get him going, and when we need
stretch to make some tough shots, that's when you can
(23:59):
go go be Spider to everybody else knows.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I feel like that grown man conversation you can see
because that's how y'all operating in the back court like
grown professionals.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
You got taken care of each other, and you know,
sometimes it's not even communication, it's the numb and you
can tell he'll play make for you to get you
going right at the same time you're doing the same
thing for him, you know, and you can see the maturity.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I just like the fact that you know, that's your
first grown man conversation and it's with your back court man.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
It definitely took us over the top of what I believe.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Because that was my thing, like my first All Star
year at Laurie Market and Jared Allen Evan mob as
a rookie Isaaca Corro, like I thought I had to
do it all by myself.
Speaker 10 (24:56):
He felt the same youtubh before he came over here.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
So it's like, now we got a dynamic duo with
these two cent footage down here that can move their
feet on the defensive end, block shots and then catch
lots break screens on the offensive end. So let's figure
this thing out. Then we bring Max Strews, George Me
and God talk big top hooping here, Like you know,
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we got we got a lot more pieces now, so
we don't have to do as much on the ball.
We can get off the ball a little bit more
and they can go make a play for themselves. So
I mean, it was it was a perfect dynamic for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
As we're taping this, y'all are currently thirty four six,
and I must say, before a couple of days ago,
I thought, yall, I was getting a little worry y'all
was getting a little too close to being on pace
to break to seventy three.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So you know, lose a couple of games, but.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Lo now the last team to have for All Stars,
though Comet the same team in the one season was
in twenty eighteen gold to State Warriors. Why do you
think the Cavs should have four All Stars this season?
And by the way, before you answer, I'll say, I
think y'all should have four All Stars this season.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Number one, the league, best record in the league, four
guys playing probably the best in the career, all Star
level at an All Star level, and all guys played
thirty nine forty games so far. You know, that's I
think that's going to be something that actually means something.
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By playing games this year, especially the new rules for
the All Stars, everybody's playing at a high level. Bro
guys at an MVP caliber level. Mostle he's breaking the
threshold and showing the world that he's one of those guys.
And Jared Allen he's showing that he's one of the
best centers in the league and playing every game at
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a high level, and both fans of the floor. So,
I mean, I think it's pretty simple that we should
have four in the game.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
But you know that's not up to me.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
That's set up.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
That's up to the guys that's doing the votes and
the coaches and people like that. But yeah, I mean
it's it's definitely four for sure, and kidny acac coaching
that you saw.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
And I'm a stamp it. I'm a stamp it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Listen, I respect it.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I think I think all for you when I look
at so when you take a step back and you
look at how things have gone in the past when
talking All Star voting, the reality is.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Most guys that becomes an All Star usually gets snubbed.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And so if you think about it from that perspect
I'm sorry Evan Mobley, but you have to be the
one that get snubbed because you've never been snubbed before, right, Like,
that's just it used to be a rite of passage
if you was going to become an All Star, unless
you was Lebron or somebody becoming an All Star year one,
year two, you had to get snubbed first. Now I
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don't necessarily think the way things used to be in
the NBA there are that way anymore. But for me,
I have a hard time figuring out of the four guys,
which one of them shouldn't be an All Star. And
the answer is none of them, Like all of y'all
should be an All Star. But say they take three,
if they take three, then it just has to be Evan,
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And I'm sorry because he's playing some of the best basketball.
He is playing the best basketball he's ever played in
the NBA. But he's playing some of the best basketball
of any power of power forwards in the NBA, and
it sucks that it would have to be him. But
You've been an All Star, Don's been an All Star,
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and if I'm not mistaken, Jared Allen, I think he's
been an All Star.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Twice, but has he been twice?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
He's a snub Yeah, he was snubbed down for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
But to my point, he's been snubbed already, you know
what I'm saying, So it's not right for him to
necessarily get snubbed again. And so just in looking at
it through that lens, like, it definitely has to be you, Donovan,
and Jared, and there should be four because I think
Evan's definitely playing at an All Star level. But if
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there has to be three, it's unfortunately it has to
be him because he just hasn't been snubbed yet.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That's kind of that. That's how I look at it.
What about you, Bed, I like, for I.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Think the record they have, the way they've been playing,
the type of basketball they've been playing, the consistency of
the stars. When I look at the East, I don't
see why not there is not a strong case right
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outside of the You know, there's a lot of guards
in the East, but you know, you and Donovan and
right now when you look at the Eastern Conference, big
guys like Evin Mobley, Jared Ally, Johannest a couple other
people like, I'm not sure if it be made, you know,
(30:25):
like andmb it ain't even play this year.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Does he make it right?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
So like, so.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
As I'm looking at it, I'm like, number one record,
big guys are playing well. You know, you have top
ten big guys at both positions, top ten guards at
both positions.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You know you number one in the East.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
This is the time that the league should take for
This is the time y'all should be on Slam magazine.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
This is the time that you know. I like it
because I like the hype.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I like for y'all to get y'all shine, And I
also want to see y'all get youall flowers and beat
the dogs, like let's get the competition going, you know,
I want to see what Boston feel like after All
Star weekend, Right, it's just for me, you know, as
a fan raises the end. But it's also rewarding you
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all for the type of season that you haven't and
you just you a buzz saw, You just you buz
saw and everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, how do I feel about the All Star votes?
Speaker 10 (31:32):
Is it a popularity contest?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It is a.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Popularity for sure. I'm gonna tell you how. You know
it's a popularity contest. Be He's just said Joel may
be an All Star. Joys played two games this year,
So you know it's a popularity right, because that's the
way it's been a condition.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
It's one thousand percent of popularity contest.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But if I'm honest, there ain't much popularity doing anything
in the Eastern Conference, right, Like, so when you look
across the East, you got from Boston, you're gonna have
j T and jb right from the Knicks, you're gonna
have Kat and Jalen.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
From Milwaukee, you're gonna have Dane and Jannis.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Orlando would have had one or two guys early in
the season, they've been hurt the rest of the year.
Speaker 9 (32:25):
Atlanto get Trey Young, in Detroit to get Ka, then
Miami maybe here maybe, but like after that and then Charlotte,
Charlotte will get.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
LaMelo in.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
So when you look at the guards, you got LaMelo,
you got Donovan, got Jaylen Brunston, you got DG. You
got Dane. That's five guards. You see what I'm saying.
And k Cunningham that's six guards. All right, Now you
got Jannis, you got JT. You out Evan, Jared Allen,
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Jaylen Brown and.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Cat. That's your twelve wall Stars.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
That's eleven. That's that's six guards. That's six six bigs.
That's your twelve all stars. And I don't see how
that could play out any differently than that like to
be because here's the thing. Some people try to make
the argument and say Derek White, right, which Derek White's
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balling is after twenty points. But if you're gonna say
they get three in, y'all are six games ahead of
them in the Eastern Conference with forty games in, you're
six games ahead. And so you can't say both of
y'all get three in. Y'all six games ahead. And I
think that gives y'all to note like I think there
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should be four guys. But it's definitely a popularity contest.
And I think there's not much like at some point
with this All Star stuff and with the voting stuff
in general, they gotta get it figured out, man like,
because it's just it's just all over the place. It's
too many opinions that don't really have a real opinion.
(34:15):
But they got to say it's it's just it's too
all over the place for me, if I'm honest about it.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
And then and then when you look at the coaches,
you know, I would say I got stuff probably twice
because the coaches hated me because I was, you know,
because if you're killing the coaches, they not going to
vote with somebody who really killing them, right. Uh So
it's a it's all a campaign thing. I used to
(34:42):
look at it like, man, if I don't make it,
then now on my list, you know, now on my
list coming up. And I always wanted to prove myself
I guess the best, but I start I stopped kind
of relying on that and more so start looking at, Okay,
what does my numbers look like against whoever they think.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Are the top dog.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I think y'all get four and I just don't plays
out any other way. And you're definitely an All star. H.
So yeah, that's how we move you know what I'm saying,
all the Star.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Vote right now, you right now you uh you and guards,
so you know, and that's that's just that's just a
fan vote. But you know, you leading this team man
as the point guard and and and and taking taking
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the role as that that PG for this unit. I
definitely see you in as an All Star this year.
And you know, as we're talking, you're coming off one
of the worst or one of the toughest losses of
the season. And okay, see Thunder who also been balling
in the West. When you lose, was a game like
that in that type of fashion, how do you bounce back?
(36:05):
Like what do you say that as a team, how
do you'all bounce back from that?
Speaker 6 (36:08):
You play Minnesota tomorrow? That part, yeah, I was just
watching him play the Knicks h super tough, super long,
defensively gotten to kill Alexander and seeing mcdames out there
at six seven sixty six.
Speaker 10 (36:27):
You know, you got Rudy.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
And man just a dog, you know on an offensive end,
and uh, Julius Rendall just playing his part. So I
mean it was it was an old fashioned built ass.
I mean that's what it was on national television. So yeah,
we watched that film and try to figure some things
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out on the defensive end, trying to stop Shade, which
is pretty tough to do. But it's just eighty two
game season, man, So I look forward to the next game.
We got another tough oppony coming out the West in Minnesota,
so let's getting ready for that one.
Speaker 10 (37:11):
Let's me they on our list.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Brother.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
What I'll tell you is this, y'all just had a
tough loss to the second to the team with the
second best record in the NBA. The year we won
seventy three games, we lost to the Lakers, who won
seventeen games all year twice by twenty five happen, and
people will try to point to that loss and be like,
y'all because we live in this twenty four hour news cycle, right,
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so people try to point to the los as.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Soon as y'all lose. Ah, man, they're not big enough,
they're not strong enough.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Look, we just showed y'all and a team that y'all
just beat last week, right, Like, that's just the news
cycle we live in.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
But y'all, y'all will be y'all will be just.
Speaker 6 (37:52):
Fine and then they start talking about trade talks immediately
right after the loss.
Speaker 10 (37:57):
So I'm like, on the plane yet now I'll talk about.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Thirty four and six, best record in the league by four,
three or four games games.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I had the next closest team in the Eastern Conference.
That's that's the world we live in, though, so get
used to it.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Enjoy it because as y'all sit at the top, which
I don't see that changing, that's that's just what comes
with it. And take it on the chain, keeping pushing.
I call them all smart dummies. They're smart, they got
they don't know. Kenny Atkinson was assistant coach for US
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for three years, one of one of my favorite guys.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
I remember Kenny was interviewing for the job and he
called me and he was like, what do you think
about this job? You know they got I think you know,
they got Darius, they got Donovan, Like what are you thinking?
And I was like, well, I think they got talent.
You know, they have the pieces, but it hasn't worked.
(39:11):
And he was so excited to get there to get
the job number one, but then once he got it,
or at the opportunity to get a job, and then
once he got it and just seeing how he went
to work.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
You know, I got to know him really well, and
I love the way he have y'all moving the ball.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
When we played y'all the.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
First time, I felt like my net was like this,
Like so I turned one time, somebody drove and I dropped,
and I turned my head for a second.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
The ball flew by my head and I turned to
go back to where I.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Was, and you was way on the other side. I'm like, man,
these dudes moving and moving this ball crazy. But what
has it been like just having Canny come in? What
would you say it is that he did initially? Because
the season is this season, right, Like y'all got talent
the offense, obviously, but what what was some of the
things that Kenny did initially before you ever even had
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a practice like summertime.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
What was some of the things that he did to
ultimately get y'all rolling to the way y'all are now.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Man, just building that confidence and everybody, Like literally from
day one he came to Nashville and see me just
to sit down and talk to me. It was like,
I need you to be that all star guard that
she was. He told me straight up, like I need
you to go go run a team and go do
what you do. Go play with that confidence and that
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swiker that I've seen you with for the last three
or four years before that. So I mean I took
that and I just had that in the back of
my head the entire summer, like I got to get
to work and I gotta go be me. And he
did the same thing to down. He did the same
thing that Evan and Ja so and that's our core foward,
that's that's really locked in with each other. And then
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as soon as he got the job, we went to
training camp, you know, a couple of years ago with
JB he had Evan and Ja and the and like
the dunker a lot more. Now Evan's on the three
point line and a lot more spacing in the trail position,
and he's like Kenny saw a lot of things that
Evan could do on the floor on the outside, like
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behind the perimeter, he can all he can make the
right reads and uh, he's stretching the floor this year,
shooting the three ball a lot more. So that's that
little slight change chance our entire offense for us. Just
a lot more spacing for me and Donna get downhill
to create for others. And then Evan just having that
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confidence in himself and his his work. Just shooting a
trade ball with confidence, and I think he's shooting at
like a forty rate right now and it ain't on
a three game either, right, just confidence him just to
shoot the tray balls just so he keep the defense, honest.
Speaker 10 (42:04):
I mean it changed the world for us.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Before Kenny coming to Nashville and having those conversations with you,
did a part of you feel like you was possibly
going to ultimately need to change the scenery. You know,
it hadn't been quite going the way it has started
going for you in Cleveland. You kind of not feeling
like yourself before having that conversation and Kenny assuring you, like, no,
this is the guard that I need. Did a part
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of you feel like, Man, maybe I need to change
the scenery because that createps into all our minds. I've
been here for thirteen years. I can't tell you the
amount of times I've been like, man, maybe I do
need to change the scenery. Like throughout the course of
this journey.
Speaker 6 (42:40):
He crept in my mind a little bit, especially a
couple of times over the summer. But I mean, it
was really really my parents, Bro, They was like, just
stick with it. You didn't have a great season last
year with the injuries and stuff like that, and you
and Don just now getting to really have a good
feel for each other, Like, just just stay with it,
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just for another year.
Speaker 5 (43:03):
Man.
Speaker 10 (43:04):
With Kenny coming in, I didn't I didn't know how
it was gonna be. I didn't know how it was
gonna work.
Speaker 6 (43:10):
But when we got to Sarasota in training camp, Bro,
it was it was off and running after that, like
everything was just flowing.
Speaker 10 (43:18):
Our connection is was pretty.
Speaker 6 (43:20):
Good at the time, but now it's it's really good.
We can talk to each other off and on the floor.
I get a lot of input from him, he get
input from me and Don. So I mean it's it's
like a work in tandem right now, Bro, in our relationship. Man,
I remember even asking you a little bit dre about
Kenny and how he was going to be, and I mean,
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that's that's my dog, Bro, To be honest with you, I.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Told you you great coach. He know the game.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
And the one thing that I love, really loved about
Kidney as a coach is he knows those analytics better
than anyone but he's not an analytical nightmare, you know.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
And what I mean by exactly what I mean.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
By analytical nightmare is he gonna tell you, hey, so
know this about this number. He ain't throwing it in
your face every day, like yo, these numbers say this.
You need to and to understand the analytics like he does,
but have the feel that he has. That's a dangerous combination.
Speaker 5 (44:28):
Man.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
I had him in New York. He used to work
me out. He was an assistant coach. He's sharp, he
worked hardy efficient. He understand analytics, but he understand players.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
He liked players. He like he liked hooping.
Speaker 4 (44:44):
And anytime you find a coach that like hooping and
like hoopers, then you give him the little, you know,
analytics stuff. It makes it perfect for the point guard.
I was going to ask you that with the relationship
with the coach, Like how important is it for you
as the point guard this year to have that relationship
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and that communication with a coach like Kenny.
Speaker 10 (45:10):
Yeah, it's super important.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Man.
Speaker 6 (45:13):
Me and Kenny like we really like this right now,
like no bs like my dog. We even talked about
the OKC loss this morning. He came up to when
I was getting recovery. He was like, we we didn't
shoot it well, but they kicked our ass.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
That's what it was. That's here. Yeah. I just asked him.
I was like, that's it.
Speaker 10 (45:37):
He was like, yeah, get ready for get ready for Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (45:40):
So you feel the same way how we feel like
once in the next one, we got another, we got
another game coming up.
Speaker 10 (45:46):
You're inassured and shoot rounds. Like He's on the floor
with me.
Speaker 6 (45:48):
When I'm getting shots up, He's guarded me, trying to
get over his screen. He going unders, giving me a
hark like this this was gonna be like in game.
And then when I'm done, he'd go over and take
a ball, go on the sideline, start working on his
hand doing so.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
Today.
Speaker 10 (46:08):
Like man, I just alright, So it's super cool.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
Just have like an active coach like that, just always
on the floor with us, always getting input from us,
and then he can receive it and then we can
receive it as well, and just that communication part.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (46:23):
It really means a lot to me as a point
guard to have like another point guard coach. I actually
been through it, and she played the game. I actually know,
and it actually been around great players. That's one of
one of my favorite players to ever played the game.
So I try to get like some little input from Kenny.
How what was stuff doing? Like what can I do
to help my game? How can I How can I
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get over this screen a little bit fast, get my
feet down quicker to get into the shot.
Speaker 10 (46:49):
So it's getting like a little notes from him like that.
It's it's super cool.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
I know y'all just saw me laugh now.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
I was laughing because a couple of years ago, Kenny
with that same intensity, uh him and laying our video
guy got to talking some ship and uh, you know
Kenny like Kenny, check up, Kenny always check up, check
rock always.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
First play towards quad, first play. He was pissed that ladd.
He like, come on, let's go.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Come on now, you want to come on, let's go
first play towards Quad. That choir slowed him down before.
I'm telling you before when Kenny first got here, before
that quad, Kenny was like a machine. He worked out
all day every day, right like all of that he
tore that quad and that that choir slowed him down.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
That choad slowed him down for sure.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
I'm telling you, it's chasing you over the screen all
that like that was Kenny, like he got crazy energy
and crazy shape. But and eat, sleep and breathe basketball.
But that that Quaird slowed down like to now though.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Bro he he in the gym he was.
Speaker 6 (48:08):
We was at Okay, see shoot a route. He on
the stairs, hands up, running up the stairs, the ball
handling drills.
Speaker 10 (48:16):
He was in a pool.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
He enjoyed and all that minute he said, I said,
I'll be doing if I was stunting, I'll be doing.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
The same thing. But I'm playing. You know, I'm trying
out for the Warriors next year. I'm going to train camp.
Speaker 5 (48:29):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
You know, me and d Me and Jay got a bed.
I tell him I'm gonna make the team. Man, he
keep he keep doubting me. I've been doing that ship too. Yeah,
it's easy. It's easy.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
You know what I mean. I gotta come back to
the league. Money, y'all gotta retire me. You know, I
love y'all game. I'm just like, man, put me on
the bench, let me come in guaris time. That one
of the young young dudes trying to retire me. Hey,
but I'm definitely making this court come back, he said,
come had some braids. Man, I was going for you
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for the hang time. I was going like that, said, man,
let me go, let me reverse to the clock and ship.
You know what I'm saying, Jake, we hopped on DJ.
We hopped on the zoom today. This man had this
hood off.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
He had the bar oat mills going, he had the
little dreads going.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
He had and it's not hopped on this zoon with
a hood off. And he took his hood off.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
You can.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
On the zoom with the body.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (49:37):
People was asked me, I went from here, someone's wrong.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
He like, go to the taper. That man went from here.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
To I ain't gonna I ain't gonna even known this time.
I went, okay, take you know, take the bread, take
the dress down. Let me get the best heavy curls.
I looked at the curls. I said, you know what,
let me get a cod biness. Let me give me
a Draymond Green.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
So I go to get the Draymond Green to cole
bidis you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4 (50:10):
And I look in the mirror and I said, oh,
I go, oh right. So I FaceTime my kids and
they get I'm not playing. I FaceTime my kids, bro,
and they get on the fall and they said, oh,
Stephen A Smith And they.
Speaker 7 (50:31):
Said I look and I said, damn, look the line.
The hairline. The hairline was like he had line me up.
I said, come on, bro, take my ship up.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
I'm hey, bro, my hairline was like this that she
was clean, but that ship was he said, Now.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
I got cut it off. Bro, I'm just here to
tell you that desperate, I'm here to tell you it
wasn't clean. If your hairline was here, it wasn't clear.
It was no way for it to be clean.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
No, I was a sick edge. She put a sick
edge on it.
Speaker 4 (51:18):
Like imagine if you take three inches back and then
that's your hair.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
Lord, I mean that's sick.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
Bro is crazy.
Speaker 10 (51:27):
Yeah, and that's what we are.
Speaker 9 (51:30):
Bro.
Speaker 4 (51:32):
Hey tell it before we get out of here. Tell
us about Tenfold why you decided to start that series.
Speaker 10 (51:38):
A lot of people want to know, like the real DJ.
Speaker 6 (51:41):
You know, I'm just trying to give him a little input,
but what we go through, what I go through on
a daily day basis, and then like my number ten,
you know, tenfold, I've been ten times greater than I
was ten times I was the day before.
Speaker 10 (51:59):
You know, just play on the number ten just got
a little insights on what I do on a day
to day basis.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
Now, I love that because this first person as shall perspective, right,
And you know, for fans and people who know your game,
the more we get to know you, you know, the
more we pour in and root for you.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
And you talked about how Chicago and Derrick Rose is
one of your favorites growing up.
Speaker 4 (52:26):
You know, tell us about why he is one of
your favorites, and like, what aspect of this game do
you try to implement into yours.
Speaker 6 (52:36):
I'm a Gary Deanna kid, born and raised Gary Deanna
by the way in Nashville. But yeah, that number one jersey.
That was the first jersey I've had, and I was
the only one I've had. I just got rid of
it when I moved to my house in Cleveland. So
probably like my second second year of the league, that's
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that's I got rid of the jersey.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (53:02):
But then my rookie year, my first preseason game was
against d Rose when he was in d I was like, man,
this is insane.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (53:12):
But just going to the United Center, brouh, just making
that little drive to the city. That's my grandmother's favorite team.
So we used to watch that going to over her house.
We used to watch all the games growing up with
Kirk Hyenry, Ben Gordon and all the other guys. But
man d Rose just had the whole regional lot like
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from Indiana to Chicago, damn near the whole world, not
even a lot.
Speaker 10 (53:40):
To but just his relentlessness, bro, he was just relentless,
like by any means necessary.
Speaker 6 (53:50):
He couldn't shoot it as well, but just his handle,
his quickness and just getting to the paint, shooting a floater,
using using his athleticism which I don't have, wish I
I wish I had, but nobody got his b Yeah.
It was just just this was insane. He just brought
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so much excitement to the city. And then like as
a young kid just watching him on a night and
night basis, it was super cool to see the youngest
MVP in the league. It just brought so much inspiration
for us. Like we used to lower the gold so
I can go dunk like d Rose.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
DG you have some bounds you have so can you
still dunk? You have some bounce first? You still dun't
you both.
Speaker 3 (54:38):
That I didn't you know this?
Speaker 10 (54:41):
NBA take your least knee surgery man and being old bro.
My turn twenty five this year.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Yeah, my goodness, his insurance about to go down, ladies
and gentlemen, his car insurance is about to go down.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
That's that's yeah.
Speaker 6 (55:02):
I did have bounce at high school and college, though
I had a couple of bodies in my day, you know.
Speaker 10 (55:08):
But if I get to the floating down trying to
save a couple of those bounces.
Speaker 2 (55:13):
By the way, for the for those of y'all that
don't don't know it, don't understand, he said that short
driving you probably like shorts ride from Nashville d G
to PG is from scary Gary, Indiana for those of
y'all don't.
Speaker 4 (55:27):
Yeah, scary Gary the next great place to shoot a
horror movie.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
Yeah got y'all got so many vacant buildings, all.
Speaker 10 (55:35):
Of churches and liquor stores and abandoned houses.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
I love the city though, absolutely. That's sagging off for you,
sagging all the same way.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Gary.
Speaker 1 (55:45):
I'm just telling you.
Speaker 3 (55:47):
Shaging got cows in farms.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
You think Gary, Indiana don't the part of sagonof I'm
from don't have farm.
Speaker 1 (55:56):
But if you drive far enough out you're gonna find
a but not in Gary.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
Bro Yeah, it's no farm sitting in sagon Off. But
you dry far enough, you gonna find a far better Believe.
Speaker 6 (56:08):
Without lights a Paraiso and Hammon, you might You're gonna
catch a farm, for sure, he and Gary, though, no,
you ain't find nothing.
Speaker 3 (56:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (56:19):
Two more before we get out of here, I saw
a firefire ask you are you going.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
To bring us a championship this year? And your response
to him was we have enough, more than enough. Why
do you feel like this is the year y'all can
get over that hump and capture your first ring, Cleveland's
first ring since twenty sixteen, and.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
You know, second ring all time. Man.
Speaker 6 (56:44):
Just the talent that we have. Our depth is insane.
We can go nine ten deep, which a lot of
teams really can't do.
Speaker 10 (56:54):
I think that's for another notch. And then our coaching
staff is really good.
Speaker 6 (57:00):
Bro'll y'all hit on it earlier with ka Uh just
being so intensed and being so detailed, and scouts and
everybody around them that helps us really locked in on
both sides of the ball and actually understand the game
and actually been in some important games in their careers
as well, so they know what it's like. And then
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back to our team, it's we've been in some of
those games now too. We had a couple of playoff appearances,
so we know what it's like. We know what the
physicality is like, and we know what it's like in
that last six minutes of a close game in the
playoff series. We're gonna have to really take care of
the ball and execute at a high level. They and
to fit at a high level. And with those two
big sound foots back there at the all defensive level,
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I think they can take us anywhere.
Speaker 10 (57:44):
With the competition and the spirit that we play with.
Speaker 1 (57:47):
Then we got a chance.
Speaker 6 (57:49):
Man, But another team and that Green is they hungry
for another one as well, and USC in the West
and in Minnesota over there as well.
Speaker 1 (58:00):
Go to stay y'all.
Speaker 6 (58:01):
Y'all never know sleepers with the talent. So it's gonna
be tough, but I think we have a chance for sure.
Speaker 4 (58:08):
You know, I was gonna be a shifty guard. I
always say I created the bot.
Speaker 3 (58:13):
Uh Me and Jay.
Speaker 4 (58:14):
We love a good list, you know, you being one
of the shiftiest guards in the league. Right now, give
us your top five shiftiest guards in the NBA right.
Speaker 1 (58:24):
Now, right now five shifters, the shifters.
Speaker 10 (58:31):
I ain't gonna lie b d I gotta, I gotta.
I stole a couple moves from you too, though.
Speaker 3 (58:34):
Bro, come on, man, thank you like that?
Speaker 4 (58:39):
Hey, Dremond, I'll be sitting on the bench twenty five,
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (58:44):
Your back, you're back when out walking around. It's over
for you. It's over for you.
Speaker 4 (58:51):
I threw my back out soft dance, Hey, dj I
was I was SA dance and that's how I really
threw my back out.
Speaker 2 (59:03):
You know that?
Speaker 3 (59:05):
Yeah, you feel me.
Speaker 1 (59:06):
D G.
Speaker 2 (59:07):
You threw us back out the day before kids were
pop on that crip Walker threw us back out of there, Andy.
Speaker 5 (59:15):
Looking out ball, no matter how many crips.
Speaker 1 (59:33):
That's so funny. Oh man.
Speaker 2 (59:36):
Five, though I'm including myself, you can if you want
your list of top five shifters.
Speaker 10 (59:44):
No order, no order, I'm gonna put me Kai o
h shay, I'm gonna put Trey in there.
Speaker 3 (59:56):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (59:57):
The last one I got too.
Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
He ain't gonna car I already know he ain't gonna call.
Speaker 10 (01:00:03):
I don't know where that fifth could be.
Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Bro ain't good?
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Yeah, yeah, mm hmmm, Well mellow Fleet.
Speaker 6 (01:00:16):
Okay, I guess yeah, Fred got a lot of snatches.
I don't know Mellow, Mellow Pack, Jordan Poole.
Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
I might go with Pool, Jalen Brs do you think
do you consider Jalen Bruston shifty or crafty?
Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
I like George Jordan Pool. I like that on the
shifty list, George Pool shifty as hell.
Speaker 10 (01:00:40):
I'm gonna beat Shae Trey and JP go Pool.
Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
That's a good list. I like that.
Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
We'll be on that list next year for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Hey man, it's oversea, and that's why we got to
get out of here, because this went ball. And think
he back in Charlotte with the number one jersey. I'm
sorry to tell you Mellow took the jersey. He took
to Jersey.
Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Playing for the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
All right now he won't now now he want us
to be struggling more than we already are.
Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
This is crazy, Lak. The Lakers signed that dude to
attend that he was fifty six years old. Remember that.
Speaker 5 (01:01:23):
I got a chance.
Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
They was looking out for brother. Ain't nobody looking out
for you?
Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
It is over I get on sorry because of you.
You got me, big brother.
Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
You gotta go sit down somewhere.
Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
We're gonna keep doing this, and sooner or later I'm
gonna join you sit down somewhere too.
Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
But it's over.
Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
I'll be on the TAM next year.
Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
DJ, we're not listening to this, No, Hey, DZ, we
we appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
I'm looking forward to seeing you out here at All Star.
Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Yeah, I'm a I'm A. I'm a definitely throw me
a banger at All Star. So I'm gonna make sure
you got your section for DG to PG the All Star.
We're gonna have a good time. But keep hooping, bro,
Keep keep staying in that weight room.
Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
The weight room is the key to success. Bro.
Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
We don't understand that. As basketball players, we don't understand that.
You know how important that weightroom is. But the sooner
you get it figured out, the more longevity you'll have,
the better you'll play, the less injuries from a day
to day basis you have. Like obviously, longevity is one thing,
but just from a day to day basis, Bro, when
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you're lifted the knicks and knacks, they don't happen as much.
Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
And so stay in that weightroom, bro, keep doing what
you're doing and this is your second of the next
non All Star appearances, So congratulations, my dog.
Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
We appreciate you coming on the shelf.
Speaker 10 (01:02:57):
It means a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Absolutely love bro. That's a rab y'all pleads.
Speaker 6 (01:03:05):
The volume
Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
Mmahm.
What's up everybody?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome back to The Draymond Green Show with My Dog,
my brother b D.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
What was hiding in bro?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
What's up everybody? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Just tell them brother? Before we get into this special episode.
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Follow the show on all social media platforms. That's at
Dremond Show so you don't miss none of our great announcements.
I do want to say something. We wanted to reach
out from the show and set our hot felt message
to everybody in LA going through the fires.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
You know, first line defenders, people losing their homes, people
getting sick from the smoke, being displaced.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You know, our heart goes out.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
You know, being from LA and living in LA, you know,
we know the importance of community, the importance of together
and so you know, on our behalf, we're gonna be
dropping some links different organizations that you can donate to,
that you can volunteer, and you know, hit us up
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whatever we can do to help, whatever you can do
to help. We want to bring La back. And you
know our goal is to unify La. We've been through
a lot. We've always been through stuff, but we always
come out on time. So shout out to the whole
fire department, first responders, the city, you know, the volunteers.
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We just wanted to show you a lot of love
and appreciation in these times.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We most definitely appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And also all all all the fire departments that came
from outside places to help fight those fires. Couldn't imagine
being there, you know. I know the stress that I've
dealt with over the last we can and half of
just wondering and worrying that our house, that our home
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will be okay.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You know, and just to know, like.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But people being in that every single day, actually getting
displaced from the home that they live in on a
daily basis, you know, being taken out, kids being taken.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Out of school.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The reality is some of those kids being taken out
of school, some of those parents still have to work,
you know, and so you know, just with all the
stuff going on, So we definitely send send our love
to the whole city of La everybody affected, all of
those helping and you know, doing all that you can
in your power.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I can't thank you all enough. But we're going to
get into the show b D.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I'm not sure why you got the Is that is
that the Elwood hoodie? I think so, man, GP put
me on this brand. It's I think they based out
of LA It's called Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Let me too?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Are you talking about my new ship?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Bro?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
You sir?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Bar is gone?
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Happened to bar Old mill Bards.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Transferring barn On mil to a true animation at the dreads.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Shot with a boar.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Hey man, you know it's I'll start weekend coming up.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
You know I got about when I say, about nine
ten months to get ready for training camp. You know
what I'm saying. So, hey man, I had to cut
the dreams off. They was holding me back. I was
missing shots and ship. So I staid off off with
the hair. You trying to go back to BD with
(03:49):
the with the hornet. When I show up in training camp,
I'm out of headband, everything in the baggy shorts. Ah.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
This man just popped up on TV with a bar.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Come on, man, you know I just switch him up.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I had to look more professional, you know, we gotta
look put more professional. The handing out these Amazon, MTV, NBC,
Netflix deals, I'm like, okay, let me is it the hair.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Let's see it was there because I know I could
talk to talk. Is the hair is the hair? To me?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You're scared of the gyms. These just say't real?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Did you shave it?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Did you shave your hair with a raise or clippers?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Now what happened, bro, was the barber. He gave me
a good cut, but my hairline I had a stephen
Ag And so my kids kept calling me stephen A.
And so I went back to the barber and I
was like, hey, bro, I cannot be called stephen A nowhere.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
In l A.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
My kids is doing this. They was on the FaceTime
them and all their prayers. They was like, stephen A.
My dad got a stephen A. So I told the barber,
I said, bro, take me all the way, take me home,
take me home.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
So are you so?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Are you saying stephen A need to come on home too?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Man? I stephen A. That's that's his moniker, that's his logo.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
If you had a he was a silhouette, you would
you would know that. You wouldn't know that stephen A.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You feel me like he is like if that's how
that's how pretty much you know, think about it, like
if he was a silhouette. You can look at the
silhouette and say, oh, that's Stephen A.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Smith.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
So he can never go ball.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Nah. He you gotta keep that. Yeah, he got it,
he got it. He gotta keep that. You know.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It's like it's like when you go to the lowrider
so and they got the uh and they got the trunk,
like will help it so.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You can see the motor.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh man, Oh my god, I could have a low rider.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I can't have a trunk open. I said, Man, I'm
just cutting off. I can't be Stephen at it.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Just go ahead and go home, man, kudos, ta.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
We're gonna get into today's guests.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Oh man, listen, get.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Today's guests.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Uh an all star point guard And I say that
were all pun intended, and we will get into that. Nonetheless,
he's average twenty one seventh shooting nearly fifty percent from
the field. He's very close to the fifty forty ninety
club right now. And the twenty one points on fifty
percent from the field at that size says a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So we're gonna get into this.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Nonetheless, he is a twenty twenty two NBA All Star,
and like I said, he gotta get another one this year.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
One of the best guards in the league that I
play in.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Nonetheless, he been on the pod this this rundown that
I saw. I say, a friend of the pot. He
ain't no friend of no goddamn pot. That's just my
young dog right there. Dj PG, what's happening?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You're good with You.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Appreciate youa having me, man, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
He's staring down the possibility of joining the exclusive fifty
forty ninety club this season. I know your team first, guy,
but how important is it for a point guard to
be in this club? Especially season you haven't?
Speaker 10 (08:01):
Man, It's cool.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
I mean, I think it's like eight guys in the
NBA history that's actually done it and actually completed it
for an entire season, which is pretty tough to do.
But I mean it's cool just having the stats and
like a great field goal percentage, like Drake mand said,
like at my size, it's it's pretty hard. So I mean,
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it's cool just being up there with some of those
guys haven't been completed yet for the entire season, so
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna like jump into it,
but I mean it's cool just being recognized like that.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
It's cool to have some stats like that.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
For sure, you walk into the game, right, It's not
like you're saying on fifty forty ninety you hit those marks.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
You walking in the game, like, what is that? What
does that feel? Right? Because because you had a high clip, right, man?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Like, what is that?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Confident? What's what's that feel? Bro? It's gotta be a yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I mean, just going in with confidence, bro, Just trying
to play the right way, be aggressive when I can,
but just trying to take the right shots, playing the
system a little bit, you know, but just trying to
be aggressive at all times, trying to get into paint
as much as possible. And then with the live thrist
that we got, I mean, everybody going back to their man.
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They five man fives don't never want their big.
Speaker 10 (09:21):
To score ever.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I mean, going right now, I'm getting.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Some easy layups. So that's why the field goal percentage
so high. I'm getting looks from the three point line.
Been saying some really good screens for me to come
off and get some open looks, and then my teammate
send me up so well so and then the free
two percentage, I mean that's just focused and concentration, so
not too much.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I'd be pretty focused and concentrated. I'm going to the
free throw line, not like that telling me it's just
focus and concentration. That's just simply true. But you just
made that sound less difficult than what I see. No,
I'm talking about one thing you said and specific which
(10:10):
is specifically, which is you said, biggs don't want their
their their sinners don't want their men to score, so
I'm getting easy layups.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I disagree with that. I agree that sinners don't like
their man to score.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
But I think you do such an incredible job of
keeping like what we're taught as biggs is to cat
and mouse, like never give up, like if you're going
to fully commit to the guard, never give up if
you're completely taking a big away when you're in that
two on one situation, and you do it just about
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as well as anyone where you will literally pass the
ball at the very last second, like if you get
all the way to the rim and you about to
lay the ball up and finally I go because I
have to go at that point. You do as good
a job as anyone of them making that drop off
fast after you get that guy to commit at the
last second, and.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That's such an incredible skill.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So I have to disagree with you there where you
say I'm getting easy layouts because I got live threats,
Because I get a lot of guys with live threats
in that situation and they can't finish. And so they
can't finish that layup, don't know when to take that layup,
and if they drop that ball off, you better believe it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm going to steal it and go the other way.
And you do it as well as.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Anyone in this league. So I just wanted to throw
that out there while you make it sound so easy.
But moving on, I love that you call this your
revenge season because I know the player that you are,
and last couple of years you haven't quite been the
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DG that I know. And that's due to some injury,
right like you bring Donovan Mitchewan that takes some time
to get used to. Everybody think it's just gonna happened
the next day. That don't happen like that, right like,
And so there's things that were happening that I think
could have caused it. Nonetheless, I want to ask you what,
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what for what reason did you feel that you needed
a revenge season.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
A lot of people doubted me last year, bro, Like
you said, I was going through a lot of injuries,
broken jaw, a lot of family stuff that I was
dealing with. But I mean, most importantly, the jaw was
detrimental to me, to be honest. I mean, I lost
fifteen pounds. I'm eating out of a straw. I'm trying
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to literally just blend anything up I can find in
the house just to try to get some nutrients in
my body.
Speaker 10 (12:49):
And I mean that's what it was, bro.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Like, I'm in the second round of playoffs playing against
the Boston Celsius I won the finals. I'm down fifteen
pounds in that little since high school. So I'm playing
at the highest level and the most intense basketball in
my career and I'm not even fully healthy.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
Like I'm just going out there. I just really rushed it.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Just trying to get back out there with the guys
and play the game that I love for real. So yeah,
this is I knew coming to that summer. The next summer,
like I really had to really lock in on my body,
really lock in in the gym, and that was my
whole mindset, Like I'm coming to get what I deserve
and what I had, Like, I want all that back.
(13:32):
I want the All Stars back. I want to get
back to the Eastern Conference finals that we really want
to get to.
Speaker 10 (13:40):
I want to get back. I was saying, have like
a like a good little jump start for it, you know.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
So I mean that was that was just like a
big thing for me last year and going into that
summer was just it's my time to get what I deserve.
And I mean I just had that confidence send me
every sense the injury, just to go in and have
that mindset like let's go get it.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I see a different look at different fire, different confidence,
and a different poise.
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
You know, I also read that you got a list.
I love the fact that you got a list. You
feel me you have to have a list when.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You're a PG.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Can you talk about this list and if you want
to give me like three or four names off the list.
I heard you check sawm a. You know, I'm just
here as a witness, you know, to say yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
The list was just I mean, you know, y'all know
this this league is really hard guard heavy. So it's
a lot of great guards in this league. And I
want to be mentioned as one of the top guards
in this league because I really feel like I'm one
of those guys. And I mean, just this summer, I'm
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just thinking about all the guards that I had to
go through to get back to this All Star level
and even get an All Star node. And it's a
couple of people on the list that I got it
this year so far. Uh we forty games in, we
got a whole nother second part of the season. But
I'm not gonna take no names though, b D. I'm sorry, Broyes.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Okay, I can guess, Yeah, I can guess.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
But yeah, I just want to play with that confidence.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
It's not about like just knocking nobody off or anything
like that, but I want to be seeing that's one
of the best guards in this league. And that's been
my mission. That's been my goals since I was a younger.
I wanted best to to play at this position. So yeah,
just having that confidence in me, Bro, going out there
and playing with confidence and having that swagger that I've
(15:51):
always had, and having the trust in my teammates and
my coaching staff that I can go out there and
do it on a nightly basis.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
But that list is like a chip, Yeah you got
you put some chips on your shoulders for me.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I remember it was Steve Nash, Tony Parker, Chauncey Billis
because each one was like a different level.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
You know. It's almost like a video game. And I
want to go to and oh against him four and
oh against him. You know. I like that you got
them chips.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
When you put them names, you know, on the board,
it's like you really got you really got a issue.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Right. It's not friendly basketball no more. What other point
goes exactly, And.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
That's that competition level.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Man, just having to chip on my shoulder and just
going out there and competing at a high level, especially
against those guards. But on a nightly basis, it is
always a different guard that's gonna give you something different
every night. So I mean you still got to go
out them, go at them the same way you're going
at the guys that you got on your list.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
So it's on a night to light basis.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Every every guard in this league is really good at
something that they do, and I'm just trying to go
at them and tack them as much as I can.
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Speaker 2 (18:22):
You spoke about eating out of a straw word on
the streets that you start to step into your grown
man weight now like you to put on twenty five pounds, Like,
do you feel the difference in the weight helping you,
like getting in that weight room getting stronger? Are you
f feeling that difference because I think that probably is
a part in the confidence as well.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
Not for sure, that's definitely part of the confidence.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
I've been in the weight room consistently this year, which
is totally different.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
This like my first year actually being in there consistently,
and then the weight that I put on that helped tremendously.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
So I'm just trying to keep that weight on.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Bro.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
Yeah, I'm getting somebody.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
It's a little bit bumping a little bit and my
chest a little bit more on the defensive bands. So
I could definitely tell a difference just getting through screens
actually like making the first blow instead of taking it first,
you know, keep me off my heels. But yeah, I'm
getting a little bit more physical in the trenches.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I see in your defensive mentality that you're stronger like
you're You're looking to guard more than I've ever seen
you look to guard, and it's like on a possession
of possession basis. At times, it's you turning around everybody like,
hey man, we need to get a stop, and you
sitting down.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
And the what that brings to a team.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
For a point guard to be doing that like yourself,
it gives you your guys behind a whole another set
of confidence. But even but not even the confidence, it
gives them a whole nother sense of responsibility. And you know,
for y'all to have a Jared Allen and an Evin Mobley,
you know, who are two defensive stars in their own right,
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but to see our point guard turn around and give
us that sense of responsibility, that's a totally different thing.
You know what I'm saying, and I see that, and
I think that is due to you putting that weight on,
and it's like, no, I can. I can take the bump,
you know, and still be there. And that comes with
a different bravado.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Yeah, like me just turning around talking to them like
I'm the head of the snake, like I'm the person
on the ball, So I gotta be the one that's
that's sitting down pulling on my shorts and try to
try not let him get in our paint even though
we do seven for this down there. That's all defensive
caliber type of guys, which helps a lot for sure.
(20:41):
Just being in the weight room, Bro, I'm actually taking
a lot more challenges. And I owe that to Kenny
Kenny Akinson man, He's he let me know you're gonna
guard this year.
Speaker 10 (20:53):
Like we switching one through three, one through four.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
You go out to guard bigger guys, And that's motivated
me a little bit more to get and more in
the rate room so I can guard small fowards that's
trying to post me up and how to back me
down like they did in my earlier years.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
So yes, like you, like BD says, it's a chip
on my shoulder.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Bro, I'm trying to let nobody just score on me
whenever they can or just blow by me, and trying
to try other bas so he can get in rotations
and stuff like that.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
So yeah, just trying to put my shorts up and
move my puppies.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
A little bit more, park.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Man, You and Donovan Minta, y'all look great this year,
uh together after three seasons, you know, it looked like
y'all finally finding y'all groove.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I remember playing with David Wesley, you know, and when
you uh, you know, it's like almost similar size backcourt, right,
it take you a little bit of time to figure out, like, Okay,
he's he a point guard to you said, having a
ball in his hand. You know, I'm a point guard.
This is what I really want to do. Like when
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did y'all really like what was.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It a player?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Or when did y'all feel really feel like y'all was
locked in, you know, as teammates, And when did you
feel like, Okay, I'm the point guard.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You the two But I understand you know how you flowing.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
To be completely honest, bro, I'm gonna really say this summer.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Really really got locked in knowing what we really want
to do with what we want to accomplish. He knew
that I was pretty upset about last year and not
having the performance that I wanted and what he wanted,
and as like a team perspective, Yeah, we just sat down.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And talked and.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
We just really explained to each other, like, this is
what we're gonna have to do to win, this is
what we're gonna have to do to get to the
Eastern Conference finals and to the finals. And yeah, it
was like a grown man conversation. It's really sat down
and just unfolded everything. That's like probably like the first
row man conversation I had in the league so far. Wow,
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it was like, Yeah, it was like a lot of
release off my shoulders, and I know it was a
lot of release off his as well, because I know
that Tannem can work perfectly. He's a scoring guard and I.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
Like to play mate.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
And then coming to this year, he's used to average
thirty and high twenties, but now this year his minutes
start down low and he's not averaging twenty five. He's
assuring like twenty three, twenty four, And we did a
number one team in the league, right, like he just
realized what the talent that he had around him, and
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he's just letting me facilitate, and he's just playing off
me a lot more as well. Just trying to get
him open shots and open list because everybody's going to
hand him on the office event because he's Donovan Mitchell
Righting a VP candidate, So just trying to get him
some easy ones, get him going, and when we need
stretch to make some tough shots, that's when you can
(23:59):
go go be Spider to everybody else knows.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I feel like that grown man conversation you can see
because that's how y'all operating in the back court like
grown professionals.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
You got taken care of each other, and you know,
sometimes it's not even communication, it's the numb and you
can tell he'll play make for you to get you
going right at the same time you're doing the same
thing for him, you know, and you can see the maturity.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I just like the fact that you know, that's your
first grown man conversation and it's with your back court man.
Speaker 10 (24:38):
It definitely took us over the top of what I believe.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Because that was my thing, like my first All Star
year at Laurie Market and Jared Allen Evan mob as
a rookie Isaaca Corro, like I thought I had to
do it all by myself.
Speaker 10 (24:56):
He felt the same youtubh before he came over here.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
So it's like, now we got a dynamic duo with
these two cent footage down here that can move their
feet on the defensive end, block shots and then catch
lots break screens on the offensive end. So let's figure
this thing out. Then we bring Max Strews, George Me
and God talk big top hooping here, Like you know,
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we got we got a lot more pieces now, so
we don't have to do as much on the ball.
We can get off the ball a little bit more
and they can go make a play for themselves. So
I mean, it was it was a perfect dynamic for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
As we're taping this, y'all are currently thirty four six,
and I must say, before a couple of days ago,
I thought, yall, I was getting a little worry y'all
was getting a little too close to being on pace
to break to seventy three.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So you know, lose a couple of games, but.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Lo now the last team to have for All Stars,
though Comet the same team in the one season was
in twenty eighteen gold to State Warriors. Why do you
think the Cavs should have four All Stars this season?
And by the way, before you answer, I'll say, I
think y'all should have four All Stars this season.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Number one, the league, best record in the league, four
guys playing probably the best in the career, all Star
level at an All Star level, and all guys played
thirty nine forty games so far. You know, that's I
think that's going to be something that actually means something.
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By playing games this year, especially the new rules for
the All Stars, everybody's playing at a high level. Bro
guys at an MVP caliber level. Mostle he's breaking the
threshold and showing the world that he's one of those guys.
And Jared Allen he's showing that he's one of the
best centers in the league and playing every game at
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a high level, and both fans of the floor. So,
I mean, I think it's pretty simple that we should
have four in the game.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
But you know that's not up to me.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
That's set up.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
That's up to the guys that's doing the votes and
the coaches and people like that. But yeah, I mean
it's it's definitely four for sure, and kidny acac coaching
that you saw.
Speaker 10 (27:33):
And I'm a stamp it. I'm a stamp it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Listen, I respect it.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
I think I think all for you when I look
at so when you take a step back and you
look at how things have gone in the past when
talking All Star voting, the reality is.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Most guys that becomes an All Star usually gets snubbed.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And so if you think about it from that perspect
I'm sorry Evan Mobley, but you have to be the
one that get snubbed because you've never been snubbed before, right, Like,
that's just it used to be a rite of passage
if you was going to become an All Star, unless
you was Lebron or somebody becoming an All Star year one,
year two, you had to get snubbed first. Now I
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don't necessarily think the way things used to be in
the NBA there are that way anymore. But for me,
I have a hard time figuring out of the four guys,
which one of them shouldn't be an All Star. And
the answer is none of them, Like all of y'all
should be an All Star. But say they take three,
if they take three, then it just has to be Evan,
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And I'm sorry because he's playing some of the best basketball.
He is playing the best basketball he's ever played in
the NBA. But he's playing some of the best basketball
of any power of power forwards in the NBA, and
it sucks that it would have to be him. But
You've been an All Star, Don's been an All Star,
(29:03):
and if I'm not mistaken, Jared Allen, I think he's
been an All Star.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Twice, but has he been twice?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
He's a snub Yeah, he was snubbed down for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
But to my point, he's been snubbed already, you know
what I'm saying, So it's not right for him to
necessarily get snubbed again. And so just in looking at
it through that lens, like, it definitely has to be you, Donovan,
and Jared, and there should be four because I think
Evan's definitely playing at an All Star level. But if
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there has to be three, it's unfortunately it has to
be him because he just hasn't been snubbed yet.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That's kind of that. That's how I look at it.
What about you, Bed, I like, for I.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Think the record they have, the way they've been playing,
the type of basketball they've been playing, the consistency of
the stars. When I look at the East, I don't
see why not there is not a strong case right
(30:05):
outside of the You know, there's a lot of guards
in the East, but you know, you and Donovan and
right now when you look at the Eastern Conference, big
guys like Evin Mobley, Jared Ally, Johannest a couple other
people like, I'm not sure if it be made, you know,
(30:25):
like andmb it ain't even play this year.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Does he make it right?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
So like, so.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
As I'm looking at it, I'm like, number one record,
big guys are playing well. You know, you have top
ten big guys at both positions, top ten guards at
both positions.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You know you number one in the East.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
This is the time that the league should take for
This is the time y'all should be on Slam magazine.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
This is the time that you know. I like it
because I like the hype.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I like for y'all to get y'all shine, And I
also want to see y'all get youall flowers and beat
the dogs, like let's get the competition going, you know,
I want to see what Boston feel like after All
Star weekend, Right, it's just for me, you know, as
a fan raises the end. But it's also rewarding you
(31:21):
all for the type of season that you haven't and
you just you a buzz saw, You just you buz
saw and everybody.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, how do I feel about the All Star votes?
Speaker 10 (31:32):
Is it a popularity contest?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It is a.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Popularity for sure. I'm gonna tell you how. You know
it's a popularity contest. Be He's just said Joel may
be an All Star. Joys played two games this year,
So you know it's a popularity right, because that's the
way it's been a condition.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
It's one thousand percent of popularity contest.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But if I'm honest, there ain't much popularity doing anything
in the Eastern Conference, right, Like, so when you look
across the East, you got from Boston, you're gonna have
j T and jb right from the Knicks, you're gonna
have Kat and Jalen.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
From Milwaukee, you're gonna have Dane and Jannis.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Orlando would have had one or two guys early in
the season, they've been hurt the rest of the year.
Speaker 9 (32:25):
Atlanto get Trey Young, in Detroit to get Ka, then
Miami maybe here maybe, but like after that and then Charlotte,
Charlotte will get.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
LaMelo in.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
So when you look at the guards, you got LaMelo,
you got Donovan, got Jaylen Brunston, you got DG. You
got Dane. That's five guards. You see what I'm saying.
And k Cunningham that's six guards. All right, Now you
got Jannis, you got JT. You out Evan, Jared Allen,
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Jaylen Brown and.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Cat. That's your twelve wall Stars.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
That's eleven. That's that's six guards. That's six six bigs.
That's your twelve all stars. And I don't see how
that could play out any differently than that like to
be because here's the thing. Some people try to make
the argument and say Derek White, right, which Derek White's
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balling is after twenty points. But if you're gonna say
they get three in, y'all are six games ahead of
them in the Eastern Conference with forty games in, you're
six games ahead. And so you can't say both of
y'all get three in. Y'all six games ahead. And I
think that gives y'all to note like I think there
(33:54):
should be four guys. But it's definitely a popularity contest.
And I think there's not much like at some point
with this All Star stuff and with the voting stuff
in general, they gotta get it figured out, man like,
because it's just it's just all over the place. It's
too many opinions that don't really have a real opinion.
(34:15):
But they got to say it's it's just it's too
all over the place for me, if I'm honest about it.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
And then and then when you look at the coaches,
you know, I would say I got stuff probably twice
because the coaches hated me because I was, you know,
because if you're killing the coaches, they not going to
vote with somebody who really killing them, right. Uh So
it's a it's all a campaign thing. I used to
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look at it like, man, if I don't make it,
then now on my list, you know, now on my
list coming up. And I always wanted to prove myself
I guess the best, but I start I stopped kind
of relying on that and more so start looking at, Okay,
what does my numbers look like against whoever they think.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Are the top dog.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
I think y'all get four and I just don't plays
out any other way. And you're definitely an All star. H.
So yeah, that's how we move you know what I'm saying,
all the Star.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Vote right now, you right now you uh you and guards,
so you know, and that's that's just that's just a
fan vote. But you know, you leading this team man
as the point guard and and and and taking taking
(35:41):
the role as that that PG for this unit. I
definitely see you in as an All Star this year.
And you know, as we're talking, you're coming off one
of the worst or one of the toughest losses of
the season. And okay, see Thunder who also been balling
in the West. When you lose, was a game like
that in that type of fashion, how do you bounce back?
(36:05):
Like what do you say that as a team, how
do you'all bounce back from that?
Speaker 6 (36:08):
You play Minnesota tomorrow? That part, yeah, I was just
watching him play the Knicks h super tough, super long,
defensively gotten to kill Alexander and seeing mcdames out there
at six seven sixty six.
Speaker 10 (36:27):
You know, you got Rudy.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
And man just a dog, you know on an offensive end,
and uh, Julius Rendall just playing his part. So I
mean it was it was an old fashioned built ass.
I mean that's what it was on national television. So yeah,
we watched that film and try to figure some things
(36:52):
out on the defensive end, trying to stop Shade, which
is pretty tough to do. But it's just eighty two
game season, man, So I look forward to the next game.
We got another tough oppony coming out the West in Minnesota,
so let's getting ready for that one.
Speaker 10 (37:11):
Let's me they on our list.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Brother.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
What I'll tell you is this, y'all just had a
tough loss to the second to the team with the
second best record in the NBA. The year we won
seventy three games, we lost to the Lakers, who won
seventeen games all year twice by twenty five happen, and
people will try to point to that loss and be like,
y'all because we live in this twenty four hour news cycle, right,
(37:38):
so people try to point to the los as.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Soon as y'all lose. Ah, man, they're not big enough,
they're not strong enough.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Look, we just showed y'all and a team that y'all
just beat last week, right, Like, that's just the news
cycle we live in.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
But y'all, y'all will be y'all will be just.
Speaker 6 (37:52):
Fine and then they start talking about trade talks immediately
right after the loss.
Speaker 10 (37:57):
So I'm like, on the plane yet now I'll talk about.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Thirty four and six, best record in the league by four,
three or four games games.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I had the next closest team in the Eastern Conference.
That's that's the world we live in, though, so get
used to it.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Enjoy it because as y'all sit at the top, which
I don't see that changing, that's that's just what comes
with it. And take it on the chain, keeping pushing.
I call them all smart dummies. They're smart, they got
they don't know. Kenny Atkinson was assistant coach for US
(38:44):
for three years, one of one of my favorite guys.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Man.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
I remember Kenny was interviewing for the job and he
called me and he was like, what do you think
about this job? You know they got I think you know,
they got Darius, they got Donovan, Like what are you thinking?
And I was like, well, I think they got talent.
You know, they have the pieces, but it hasn't worked.
(39:11):
And he was so excited to get there to get
the job number one, but then once he got it,
or at the opportunity to get a job, and then
once he got it and just seeing how he went
to work.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
You know, I got to know him really well, and
I love the way he have y'all moving the ball.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
When we played y'all the.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
First time, I felt like my net was like this,
Like so I turned one time, somebody drove and I dropped,
and I turned my head for a second.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
The ball flew by my head and I turned to
go back to where I.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Was, and you was way on the other side. I'm like, man,
these dudes moving and moving this ball crazy. But what
has it been like just having Canny come in? What
would you say it is that he did initially? Because
the season is this season, right, Like y'all got talent
the offense, obviously, but what what was some of the
things that Kenny did initially before you ever even had
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a practice like summertime.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
What was some of the things that he did to
ultimately get y'all rolling to the way y'all are now.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
Man, just building that confidence and everybody, Like literally from
day one he came to Nashville and see me just
to sit down and talk to me. It was like,
I need you to be that all star guard that
she was. He told me straight up, like I need
you to go go run a team and go do
what you do. Go play with that confidence and that
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swiker that I've seen you with for the last three
or four years before that. So I mean I took
that and I just had that in the back of
my head the entire summer, like I got to get
to work and I gotta go be me. And he
did the same thing to down. He did the same
thing that Evan and Ja so and that's our core foward,
that's that's really locked in with each other. And then
(41:00):
as soon as he got the job, we went to
training camp, you know, a couple of years ago with
JB he had Evan and Ja and the and like
the dunker a lot more. Now Evan's on the three
point line and a lot more spacing in the trail position,
and he's like Kenny saw a lot of things that
Evan could do on the floor on the outside, like
(41:22):
behind the perimeter, he can all he can make the
right reads and uh, he's stretching the floor this year,
shooting the three ball a lot more. So that's that
little slight change chance our entire offense for us. Just
a lot more spacing for me and Donna get downhill
to create for others. And then Evan just having that
(41:44):
confidence in himself and his his work. Just shooting a
trade ball with confidence, and I think he's shooting at
like a forty rate right now and it ain't on
a three game either, right, just confidence him just to
shoot the tray balls just so he keep the defense, honest.
Speaker 10 (42:04):
I mean it changed the world for us.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Before Kenny coming to Nashville and having those conversations with you,
did a part of you feel like you was possibly
going to ultimately need to change the scenery. You know,
it hadn't been quite going the way it has started
going for you in Cleveland. You kind of not feeling
like yourself before having that conversation and Kenny assuring you, like, no,
this is the guard that I need. Did a part
(42:28):
of you feel like, Man, maybe I need to change
the scenery because that createps into all our minds. I've
been here for thirteen years. I can't tell you the
amount of times I've been like, man, maybe I do
need to change the scenery. Like throughout the course of
this journey.
Speaker 6 (42:40):
He crept in my mind a little bit, especially a
couple of times over the summer. But I mean, it
was really really my parents, Bro, They was like, just
stick with it. You didn't have a great season last
year with the injuries and stuff like that, and you
and Don just now getting to really have a good
feel for each other, Like, just just stay with it,
(43:02):
just for another year.
Speaker 5 (43:03):
Man.
Speaker 10 (43:04):
With Kenny coming in, I didn't I didn't know how
it was gonna be. I didn't know how it was
gonna work.
Speaker 6 (43:10):
But when we got to Sarasota in training camp, Bro,
it was it was off and running after that, like
everything was just flowing.
Speaker 10 (43:18):
Our connection is was pretty.
Speaker 6 (43:20):
Good at the time, but now it's it's really good.
We can talk to each other off and on the floor.
I get a lot of input from him, he get
input from me and Don. So I mean it's it's
like a work in tandem right now, Bro, in our relationship. Man,
I remember even asking you a little bit dre about
Kenny and how he was going to be, and I mean,
(43:44):
that's that's my dog, Bro, To be honest with you, I.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
Told you you great coach. He know the game.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
And the one thing that I love, really loved about
Kidney as a coach is he knows those analytics better
than anyone but he's not an analytical nightmare, you know.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
And what I mean by exactly what I mean.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
By analytical nightmare is he gonna tell you, hey, so
know this about this number. He ain't throwing it in
your face every day, like yo, these numbers say this.
You need to and to understand the analytics like he does,
but have the feel that he has. That's a dangerous combination.
Speaker 5 (44:28):
Man.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
I had him in New York. He used to work
me out. He was an assistant coach. He's sharp, he
worked hardy efficient. He understand analytics, but he understand players.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
He liked players. He like he liked hooping.
Speaker 4 (44:44):
And anytime you find a coach that like hooping and
like hoopers, then you give him the little, you know,
analytics stuff. It makes it perfect for the point guard.
I was going to ask you that with the relationship
with the coach, Like how important is it for you
as the point guard this year to have that relationship
(45:07):
and that communication with a coach like Kenny.
Speaker 10 (45:10):
Yeah, it's super important.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Man.
Speaker 6 (45:13):
Me and Kenny like we really like this right now,
like no bs like my dog. We even talked about
the OKC loss this morning. He came up to when
I was getting recovery. He was like, we we didn't
shoot it well, but they kicked our ass.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
That's what it was. That's here. Yeah. I just asked him.
I was like, that's it.
Speaker 10 (45:37):
He was like, yeah, get ready for get ready for Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (45:40):
So you feel the same way how we feel like
once in the next one, we got another, we got
another game coming up.
Speaker 10 (45:46):
You're inassured and shoot rounds. Like He's on the floor
with me.
Speaker 6 (45:48):
When I'm getting shots up, He's guarded me, trying to
get over his screen. He going unders, giving me a
hark like this this was gonna be like in game.
And then when I'm done, he'd go over and take
a ball, go on the sideline, start working on his
hand doing so.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
Today.
Speaker 10 (46:08):
Like man, I just alright, So it's super cool.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
Just have like an active coach like that, just always
on the floor with us, always getting input from us,
and then he can receive it and then we can
receive it as well, and just that communication part.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (46:23):
It really means a lot to me as a point
guard to have like another point guard coach. I actually
been through it, and she played the game. I actually know,
and it actually been around great players. That's one of
one of my favorite players to ever played the game.
So I try to get like some little input from Kenny.
How what was stuff doing? Like what can I do
to help my game? How can I How can I
(46:45):
get over this screen a little bit fast, get my
feet down quicker to get into the shot.
Speaker 10 (46:49):
So it's getting like a little notes from him like that.
It's it's super cool.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
I know y'all just saw me laugh now.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
I was laughing because a couple of years ago, Kenny
with that same intensity, uh him and laying our video
guy got to talking some ship and uh, you know
Kenny like Kenny, check up, Kenny always check up, check
rock always.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
First play towards quad, first play. He was pissed that ladd.
He like, come on, let's go.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Come on now, you want to come on, let's go
first play towards Quad. That choir slowed him down before.
I'm telling you before when Kenny first got here, before
that quad, Kenny was like a machine. He worked out
all day every day, right like all of that he
tore that quad and that that choir slowed him down.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
That choad slowed him down for sure.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
I'm telling you, it's chasing you over the screen all
that like that was Kenny, like he got crazy energy
and crazy shape. But and eat, sleep and breathe basketball.
But that that Quaird slowed down like to now though.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Bro he he in the gym he was.
Speaker 6 (48:08):
We was at Okay, see shoot a route. He on
the stairs, hands up, running up the stairs, the ball
handling drills.
Speaker 10 (48:16):
He was in a pool.
Speaker 4 (48:18):
He enjoyed and all that minute he said, I said,
I'll be doing if I was stunting, I'll be doing.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
The same thing. But I'm playing. You know, I'm trying
out for the Warriors next year. I'm going to train camp.
Speaker 5 (48:29):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
You know, me and d Me and Jay got a bed.
I tell him I'm gonna make the team. Man, he
keep he keep doubting me. I've been doing that ship too. Yeah,
it's easy. It's easy.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
You know what I mean. I gotta come back to
the league. Money, y'all gotta retire me. You know, I
love y'all game. I'm just like, man, put me on
the bench, let me come in guaris time. That one
of the young young dudes trying to retire me. Hey,
but I'm definitely making this court come back, he said,
come had some braids. Man, I was going for you
(49:02):
for the hang time. I was going like that, said, man,
let me go, let me reverse to the clock and ship.
You know what I'm saying, Jake, we hopped on DJ.
We hopped on the zoom today. This man had this
hood off.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
He had the bar oat mills going, he had the
little dreads going.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
He had and it's not hopped on this zoon with
a hood off. And he took his hood off.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
You can.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
On the zoom with the body.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (49:37):
People was asked me, I went from here, someone's wrong.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
He like, go to the taper. That man went from here.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
To I ain't gonna I ain't gonna even known this time.
I went, okay, take you know, take the bread, take
the dress down. Let me get the best heavy curls.
I looked at the curls. I said, you know what,
let me get a cod biness. Let me give me
a Draymond Green.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
So I go to get the Draymond Green to cole
bidis you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4 (50:10):
And I look in the mirror and I said, oh,
I go, oh right. So I FaceTime my kids and
they get I'm not playing. I FaceTime my kids, bro,
and they get on the fall and they said, oh,
Stephen A Smith And they.
Speaker 7 (50:31):
Said I look and I said, damn, look the line.
The hairline. The hairline was like he had line me up.
I said, come on, bro, take my ship up.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
I'm hey, bro, my hairline was like this that she
was clean, but that ship was he said, Now.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
I got cut it off. Bro, I'm just here to
tell you that desperate, I'm here to tell you it
wasn't clean. If your hairline was here, it wasn't clear.
It was no way for it to be clean.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
No, I was a sick edge. She put a sick
edge on it.
Speaker 4 (51:18):
Like imagine if you take three inches back and then
that's your hair.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
Lord, I mean that's sick.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
Bro is crazy.
Speaker 10 (51:27):
Yeah, and that's what we are.
Speaker 9 (51:30):
Bro.
Speaker 4 (51:32):
Hey tell it before we get out of here. Tell
us about Tenfold why you decided to start that series.
Speaker 10 (51:38):
A lot of people want to know, like the real DJ.
Speaker 6 (51:41):
You know, I'm just trying to give him a little input,
but what we go through, what I go through on
a daily day basis, and then like my number ten,
you know, tenfold, I've been ten times greater than I
was ten times I was the day before.
Speaker 10 (51:59):
You know, just play on the number ten just got
a little insights on what I do on a day
to day basis.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
Now, I love that because this first person as shall perspective, right,
And you know, for fans and people who know your game,
the more we get to know you, you know, the
more we pour in and root for you.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
And you talked about how Chicago and Derrick Rose is
one of your favorites growing up.
Speaker 4 (52:26):
You know, tell us about why he is one of
your favorites, and like, what aspect of this game do
you try to implement into yours.
Speaker 6 (52:36):
I'm a Gary Deanna kid, born and raised Gary Deanna
by the way in Nashville. But yeah, that number one jersey.
That was the first jersey I've had, and I was
the only one I've had. I just got rid of
it when I moved to my house in Cleveland. So
probably like my second second year of the league, that's
(52:59):
that's I got rid of the jersey.
Speaker 1 (53:01):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (53:02):
But then my rookie year, my first preseason game was
against d Rose when he was in d I was like, man,
this is insane.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (53:12):
But just going to the United Center, brouh, just making
that little drive to the city. That's my grandmother's favorite team.
So we used to watch that going to over her house.
We used to watch all the games growing up with
Kirk Hyenry, Ben Gordon and all the other guys. But
man d Rose just had the whole regional lot like
(53:36):
from Indiana to Chicago, damn near the whole world, not
even a lot.
Speaker 10 (53:40):
To but just his relentlessness, bro, he was just relentless,
like by any means necessary.
Speaker 6 (53:50):
He couldn't shoot it as well, but just his handle,
his quickness and just getting to the paint, shooting a floater,
using using his athleticism which I don't have, wish I
I wish I had, but nobody got his b Yeah.
It was just just this was insane. He just brought
(54:11):
so much excitement to the city. And then like as
a young kid just watching him on a night and
night basis, it was super cool to see the youngest
MVP in the league. It just brought so much inspiration
for us. Like we used to lower the gold so
I can go dunk like d Rose.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
DG you have some bounds you have so can you
still dunk? You have some bounce first? You still dun't
you both.
Speaker 3 (54:38):
That I didn't you know this?
Speaker 10 (54:41):
NBA take your least knee surgery man and being old bro.
My turn twenty five this year.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Yeah, my goodness, his insurance about to go down, ladies
and gentlemen, his car insurance is about to go down.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
That's that's yeah.
Speaker 6 (55:02):
I did have bounce at high school and college, though
I had a couple of bodies in my day, you know.
Speaker 10 (55:08):
But if I get to the floating down trying to
save a couple of those bounces.
Speaker 2 (55:13):
By the way, for the for those of y'all that
don't don't know it, don't understand, he said that short
driving you probably like shorts ride from Nashville d G
to PG is from scary Gary, Indiana for those of
y'all don't.
Speaker 4 (55:27):
Yeah, scary Gary the next great place to shoot a
horror movie.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
Yeah got y'all got so many vacant buildings, all.
Speaker 10 (55:35):
Of churches and liquor stores and abandoned houses.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
I love the city though, absolutely. That's sagging off for you,
sagging all the same way.
Speaker 3 (55:45):
Gary.
Speaker 1 (55:45):
I'm just telling you.
Speaker 3 (55:47):
Shaging got cows in farms.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
You think Gary, Indiana don't the part of sagonof I'm
from don't have farm.
Speaker 1 (55:56):
But if you drive far enough out you're gonna find
a but not in Gary.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
Bro Yeah, it's no farm sitting in sagon Off. But
you dry far enough, you gonna find a far better Believe.
Speaker 6 (56:08):
Without lights a Paraiso and Hammon, you might You're gonna
catch a farm, for sure, he and Gary, though, no,
you ain't find nothing.
Speaker 3 (56:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (56:19):
Two more before we get out of here, I saw
a firefire ask you are you going.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
To bring us a championship this year? And your response
to him was we have enough, more than enough. Why
do you feel like this is the year y'all can
get over that hump and capture your first ring, Cleveland's
first ring since twenty sixteen, and.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
You know, second ring all time. Man.
Speaker 6 (56:44):
Just the talent that we have. Our depth is insane.
We can go nine ten deep, which a lot of
teams really can't do.
Speaker 10 (56:54):
I think that's for another notch. And then our coaching
staff is really good.
Speaker 6 (57:00):
Bro'll y'all hit on it earlier with ka Uh just
being so intensed and being so detailed, and scouts and
everybody around them that helps us really locked in on
both sides of the ball and actually understand the game
and actually been in some important games in their careers
as well, so they know what it's like. And then
(57:21):
back to our team, it's we've been in some of
those games now too. We had a couple of playoff appearances,
so we know what it's like. We know what the
physicality is like, and we know what it's like in
that last six minutes of a close game in the
playoff series. We're gonna have to really take care of
the ball and execute at a high level. They and
to fit at a high level. And with those two
big sound foots back there at the all defensive level,
(57:43):
I think they can take us anywhere.
Speaker 10 (57:44):
With the competition and the spirit that we play with.
Speaker 1 (57:47):
Then we got a chance.
Speaker 6 (57:49):
Man, But another team and that Green is they hungry
for another one as well, and USC in the West
and in Minnesota over there as well.
Speaker 1 (58:00):
Go to stay y'all.
Speaker 6 (58:01):
Y'all never know sleepers with the talent. So it's gonna
be tough, but I think we have a chance for sure.
Speaker 4 (58:08):
You know, I was gonna be a shifty guard. I
always say I created the bot.
Speaker 3 (58:13):
Uh Me and Jay.
Speaker 4 (58:14):
We love a good list, you know, you being one
of the shiftiest guards in the league. Right now, give
us your top five shiftiest guards in the NBA right.
Speaker 1 (58:24):
Now, right now five shifters, the shifters.
Speaker 10 (58:31):
I ain't gonna lie b d I gotta, I gotta.
I stole a couple moves from you too, though.
Speaker 3 (58:34):
Bro, come on, man, thank you like that?
Speaker 4 (58:39):
Hey, Dremond, I'll be sitting on the bench twenty five,
twenty six.
Speaker 1 (58:44):
Your back, you're back when out walking around. It's over
for you. It's over for you.
Speaker 4 (58:51):
I threw my back out soft dance, Hey, dj I
was I was SA dance and that's how I really
threw my back out.
Speaker 2 (59:03):
You know that?
Speaker 3 (59:05):
Yeah, you feel me.
Speaker 1 (59:06):
D G.
Speaker 2 (59:07):
You threw us back out the day before kids were
pop on that crip Walker threw us back out of there, Andy.
Speaker 5 (59:15):
Looking out ball, no matter how many crips.
Speaker 1 (59:33):
That's so funny. Oh man.
Speaker 2 (59:36):
Five, though I'm including myself, you can if you want
your list of top five shifters.
Speaker 10 (59:44):
No order, no order, I'm gonna put me Kai o
h shay, I'm gonna put Trey in there.
Speaker 3 (59:56):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (59:57):
The last one I got too.
Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
He ain't gonna car I already know he ain't gonna call.
Speaker 10 (01:00:03):
I don't know where that fifth could be.
Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Bro ain't good?
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Yeah, yeah, mm hmmm, Well mellow Fleet.
Speaker 6 (01:00:16):
Okay, I guess yeah, Fred got a lot of snatches.
I don't know Mellow, Mellow Pack, Jordan Poole.
Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
I might go with Pool, Jalen Brs do you think
do you consider Jalen Bruston shifty or crafty?
Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
I like George Jordan Pool. I like that on the
shifty list, George Pool shifty as hell.
Speaker 10 (01:00:40):
I'm gonna beat Shae Trey and JP go Pool.
Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
That's a good list. I like that.
Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
We'll be on that list next year for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Hey man, it's oversea, and that's why we got to
get out of here, because this went ball. And think
he back in Charlotte with the number one jersey. I'm
sorry to tell you Mellow took the jersey. He took
to Jersey.
Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Playing for the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
All right now he won't now now he want us
to be struggling more than we already are.
Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
This is crazy, Lak. The Lakers signed that dude to
attend that he was fifty six years old. Remember that.
Speaker 5 (01:01:23):
I got a chance.
Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
They was looking out for brother. Ain't nobody looking out
for you?
Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
It is over I get on sorry because of you.
You got me, big brother.
Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
You gotta go sit down somewhere.
Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
We're gonna keep doing this, and sooner or later I'm
gonna join you sit down somewhere too.
Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
But it's over.
Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
I'll be on the TAM next year.
Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
DJ, we're not listening to this, No, Hey, DZ, we
we appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
I'm looking forward to seeing you out here at All Star.
Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Yeah, I'm a I'm A. I'm a definitely throw me
a banger at All Star. So I'm gonna make sure
you got your section for DG to PG the All Star.
We're gonna have a good time. But keep hooping, bro,
Keep keep staying in that weight room.
Speaker 5 (01:02:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
The weight room is the key to success. Bro.
Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
We don't understand that. As basketball players, we don't understand that.
You know how important that weightroom is. But the sooner
you get it figured out, the more longevity you'll have,
the better you'll play, the less injuries from a day
to day basis you have. Like obviously, longevity is one thing,
but just from a day to day basis, Bro, when
(01:02:38):
you're lifted the knicks and knacks, they don't happen as much.
Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
And so stay in that weightroom, bro, keep doing what
you're doing and this is your second of the next
non All Star appearances, So congratulations, my dog.
Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
We appreciate you coming on the shelf.
Speaker 10 (01:02:57):
It means a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Absolutely love bro. That's a rab y'all pleads.
Speaker 6 (01:03:05):
The volume
Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
Mmahm.
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